Psalms 38:12 · KJV
“They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.”
— Psalms 38:12
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. {sore: Heb. stroke} {my kinsmen: or, my neighbours}
But I, as a deaf {man}, heard not; and {I was} as a dumb man {that} openeth not his mouth.
Psalms 38 — Context
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. {is gone...: Heb. is not with me}
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. {sore: Heb. stroke} {my kinsmen: or, my neighbours}
12They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13But I, as a deaf {man}, heard not; and {I was} as a dumb man {that} openeth not his mouth.
14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth {are} no reproofs.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Psalms 35:20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares {which} they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Luke 20:19-22
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Psalms 64:2-5
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
2 Samuel 16:7-8
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: {bloody...: Heb. man of blood}